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Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Jonathan responds to your texts and tweets, is joined in studio for all the latest science stories for Newsround and speaks to one of our two guests featured on the show. Listen and subscribe to Futureproof with Johnathan McCrea on Apple Podcasts and Spotify. Download, listen and subscribe on the Newstalk App.   You can also listen to Newstalk live on newstalk.com or on Alexa, by and asking: 'Alexa, play Newstalk'

Latest episodes

Extra: Why is our Earth spinning faster?

a day ago - 14 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Could colour be the answer to reviving marine life?

3 days ago - 27 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: The role of mitochondria in why we need sleep

8 days ago - 13 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

What determines the birth sex of a child?

10 days ago - 33 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Extra: Why newborns feel pain differently to adults

15 days ago - 14 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Biggest human imaging study completes scan of 100,000 people

17 days ago - 37 mins

Futureproof with Jonathan McCrea

Futureproof Gold: Enemies of the State

In this special insatllment of Futureproof Gold, we take a listen back to our award-winning episode 'Enemies of the State'. Among other guests, Mara Hvistendahl, Contributing Correspondent for Science, National Fellow at New America and author of the Wired article 'Inside China's Vast New Experiment in Social Ranking', joins Jonathan to explore the true potential that technology has in controlling and manipulating the behaviour of entire populations through social credit scores.